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In science news around the world this week, Iran has forbidden women to study dozens of subjects, a U.S. appeals court ruled that federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells is legal, the Bank of Canada apologized for expunging an Asian-looking scientist from a new $100 banknote, researc...
| Published in: | Science |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2012
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.337.6098.1024-b https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.337.6098.1024-b |
| Summary: | In science news around the world this week, Iran has forbidden women to study dozens of subjects, a U.S. appeals court ruled that federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells is legal, the Bank of Canada apologized for expunging an Asian-looking scientist from a new $100 banknote, researchers with more than $1 million a year in grants will get extra scrutiny from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a promising hepatitis C drug has been scuttled, "the most primitive cheetah known to date" was found to be a false composite of much older bones, and Canada has earmarked more than CAD $140 million for a new research station in the High Arctic. |
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